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Historian Jennifer Craig-Norton is the author "The Kindertransport: Contesting Memory." (inset courtesy Jennifer Craig Norton; background from book cover)
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This historian draws lessons about family separation at U.S.-Mexico border from Kindertransport artifacts

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn February 26, 2020
Abby Chava Stein, author of "Becoming Eve." (JTA/Debra Nussbaum Cohen)
Posted inOff the Shelf

Leaving Orthodoxy: personal stories of gender and Hasidism

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman February 20, 2020February 20, 2020
Israeli filmmaker Yair Qedar, producer of 'Ha'Ivrim.' (Courtesy Yair Qedar)
Posted inCulture

Learn about 20th century’s most iconic Hebrew authors in new series

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 19, 2020February 20, 2020
Naomi Seidman
Posted inBooks

Bay Area scholar Naomi Seidman wins National Jewish Book Award for study of Orthodox girls’ movement

Laura Pall by Laura Paull January 30, 2020February 20, 2020
From the cover of “Love, Sometimes: A Novel About Risk, Hollywood, and Controversial Love” by Barbara Rose Brooker.
Posted inUncategorized

Author Barbara Rose Brooker is 83 and proud to be age-inappropriate

by Liz Harris January 27, 2020February 20, 2020
From the cover of “Yaffa and Fatima: Shalom, Salaam” by Fawzia Gilani-Williams.
Posted inOff the Shelf

In the 2010s, Jewish children’s books diversified but emphasized classic values

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman January 22, 2020February 20, 2020
Alter, smiling, seated in a sunlit office full of books
Posted inBooks

Jewish Book Council awards recognize Cal prof Robert Alter, book on history of Jewish women

by JTA and J. Staff January 15, 2020January 21, 2020
Elizabeth Wurtzel (JTA/Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images)
Posted inHealth

‘Prozac Nation’ author Elizabeth Wurtzel dies of breast cancer at age 52

by Emily Burack and JTA January 8, 2020
From the cover of "Someday We Will Fly" by Rachel DeWoskin.
Posted inOff the Shelf

Hanukkah gift guide to graphic novels, picture books and young adult novels

Howard Freedman by Howard Freedman December 18, 2019
Raphael Bob-Waksberg with his book “Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory.” (Courtesy Alfred A. Knopf)
Posted inTV & Film

Two luminous works of art on love and faith to see in the Bay Area this holiday season

Laura Pall by Laura Paull December 12, 2019December 17, 2019

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